Law changing proposals must encourage the repairing of damages already caused and avoid further destruction. Do what is within your reach, and press your congressmen.

Peru was the last large or mid-sized country in the Amazon region to create a Ministry of the Environment. Despite its young age, this Ministry has been able to recover a significant part of the delay Peru had in this field compared to other countries in the region.

There is a huge gap between what people say in newspapers, at conferences or in the politicians’ pronouncements concerned with the environment, and the real level of knowledge of those who actually have the power to burn what is left of the forest in order to make their living on the frontlines of Amazonia.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is one of several pre-candidates for President of Peru in the 2011 general elections.Worse than not caring about the environmental issue is what he says in his book and which, without using much imagination, can be interpreted as more and more serious threats for the region's already difficult future

An initiative supported by German cooperation in the Ecuadorian Amazon shows a way to break the vicious circle of cattle farming and forest degradation. Besides, it also enriches the diet of peasants. 

In the last decade, the agricultural production in the Amazon has greatly increased, but has been subject to many criticisms, especially for the increase in the area of deforestation for new plantations. Is it possible to change this picture?

It is possible to say that we are on the right track. REDD is definitely assured to be present in the future agenda of the Climate Convention. Results and agreements have already been added to projects and demonstrative initiatives.